Everybody Needs Devotional Literature

Geeky atheists included.

Part of the bluff of being a New Atheist is the constant refrain that *you* are a bold and independent thinker who doesn’t need affirmation from the herd. *You* think for yourself! *You* are gutsy and courageous and without the need of some weak-minded peer group who stands in a circle around you and all nod their heads and agree with each other. And to prove it: You pore over old press clippings in the hope that Captain Kirk will be there to affirm you in your okayness and help you feel like you aren’t so alone.

Someday, at the Judgment, many Christian martyrs who died alone, despised and rejected are going to sit down with many geeky atheists who spent their lonely, geeky days bravely boasting about how they didn’t mind being alone (before shutting off the computer and crying themselves to sleep each night) and they will all have a good cry about how painful it was being so isolated and alone. Many of these atheists will realize that their unbelief was a sham they glommed on to in the hope of impressing a peer group and that their whole lives were a sort of purgatory. My hope is that they will be welcomed into heaven by the Christian martyrs as new penitents.

Just a fancy of mine.